You should have just received some references from COPAC. It occurred to me that it could be fooled into sending them direct. I have not looked which libraries have the work, and I can't even remember if any Dublin/Irish libraries are on COPAC (There is a list somewhere) They live at http://cs6400.mcc.ac.uk/copac if you do not know them. Useful. Bodley is triesome - you can get in, but only via Telnet. And if you have a local server (as we do) the Telnet software is thrown by it. Ha Ha. The wonders of comnputing (but for once, not a Microsoft problem) Anselm Ampleforth Abbey, York [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Colman O'Clabaigh <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: 03 February 1999 21:02 Subject: (Re)new member with query >Dear Listmembers, > > I am rejoining after a gap of nearly a year. I am an Irish Benedictine >monk with an interest in the monastic history and the religious orders in >medieval Ireland and elsewhere. My area of research was the Observant >Franciscans in medieval Ireland and I benefitted greatly from the expertise >of listmembers. I am currently working on preaching in late medieval >Ireland as well as trying to get material on Irish devotional and religious >practices in the same period period. > >One of the novices here has been given William of St Thierry as his >monastic patron but we have been unable to find a feastday for him. Does >anyone know? This is more urgent than it might appear: our sarabitic custom >if for the assistant novice-master to have a bottle of beer with the >novices on their feastdays. Guess who's assistant novicemaster. > >Colman O'Clabaigh,OSB > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%